Effects of dynamic reactive compensation in arc furnace operation characteristics and its economic benefits

Author

Parniani, M. ; Mokhtari, H. ; Hejri, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Sharif Univ. of Technol., Tehran, Iran

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

6-10 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

1044

Abstract

For steel industries optimum operation with high efficiency is of the first importance. On the other hand, extra investments in the supply side of electric arc furnaces may have been seen as redundant cost. Therefore, to improve the system efficiency, devices such as SVCs or STATCOMs can be employed. In this paper, the benefits of dynamic shunt reactive compensation by SVCs in steel industries are investigated. It is shown that this operation leads to optimization in steel production process and is completely beneficial from economic point of view. Supply system of a typical arc furnace is simulated using MATLAB software and the effects of a compensator on the operating characteristics of an arc furnace are shown.

Keywords

arc furnaces; power system simulation; static VAr compensators; steel industry; MATLAB software; STATCOM; SVC; arc furnace operation characteristics; compensator; dynamic reactive compensation; dynamic shunt reactive compensation; economic benefits; extra investments; high efficiency; redundant cost; steel industries; steel production process optimisation; supply side; Automatic voltage control; Costs; Furnaces; Metals industry; Power generation economics; Power quality; Production; Reactive power control; Static VAr compensators; Steel;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exhibition 2002: Asia Pacific. IEEE/PES

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7525-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TDC.2002.1177621

Filename

1177621